Invasive predators affect community‐wide pollinator visitation

• Published in: Ecological Applications
• Main Authors: Liang, Christina T., Shiels, Aaron B., Haines, William P., Sandor, Manette E., Aslan, Clare E.
• Other Authors: U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Australian Government, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: Rattus rattus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2522; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eap.2522; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/eap.2522; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/eap.2522; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eap.2522

Abstract Disruption of plant–pollinator interactions by invasive predators is poorly understood but may pose a critical threat for native ecosystems. In a multiyear field experiment in Hawai'i, we suppressed abundances of globally invasive predators and then observed insect visitation to flower...